The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-25
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Much Interestin Her Circle-Her Remark
able Adaptability for Real Work.
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NEW YORK, Sept 24.-Miss May Brady is the
proudest belle just in society" She is
distinguished figure in the Vanderbnt-Astor
set. anyhow, for she is young, pretty, talented
and up to all the newest fads. But her winning
of the brush at real fox hunt was a fresh and
lustrous glory for the famous daughter of SUI
preme Court judge. The Hampton Club of real
swells gave the chase, over in the Shinnecock
hills of Long Island. and when the very exclusive
invited participants gathered they found that
a thousand countrymen were already there to
see the sight And it fine one, far
.he horses, riders and bounds were concerned,
but after these had chased poor little fox
ten miles to death the scene became pitiful
Miss Brady beat every body OF horseback, and
so the tail Of the victim cut off and given to
her as trophy. 1t is being silver-mounted for
hanging in her boudoir.
Talk in Fifth avenue is again turned to Mrs.
James Brown Potter, and valuably ad-
vertisement Of her forthcoming debut on the
stage here. The gentlemen Immediately con-
cerned in her business management are good
enough, no doubt nevertheless, one is the man
ager of two of variety theatres. another
was mixed up with divorce scandal recently,
the highest degree. Those facts make them
hopelessly questionable, OF course, though they
may not be otherwise detrimen tai, and row has
led to the disclosure of letters showing that Mrs.
Potter is dining and calling terms with them.
Now the Potters are among our SWEETEST people.
and they have earnestly protested against the
stage exploit Now comes the news that she
will call herself Cora Potter the bills. because
her husband threatened to begin suit how
ever hopeless, TO restrain her from EN- mbazoning
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ter"
That other famous transfer from society to
the footlights, Mrs. Lanesry, has just had
failure in a new play; and, as you are not likely
to ever see it, will tell you that she smoked
real tobacco cigarettes and drank actual cham
pagne, as incidents in the mimic deviltry of the
heroine These exploits gracefully done.
but they shocked the feminine admirers of the
Lily greatly, and it is conceded that she m ade
serious mistake In publicly contaminat ng her
pretty lips with nicotine and alcohol
In about the rouehest and crudsst me!odrama
imaginable. but which is presented in our faeas1
ionable Academy of Music. the heroine falls
into river of real, wet. splashne water-or
slim boy does it for her a proxy-and that
scene saves the wo rthess play from failure An
actress of another character in the same DRAMA
seeming to realize that she must do something
striking to make herself felt, elaborates her
dying scene by rubbing white powder on her
face, she lies on the floor in the first agonies
Of poison, and then tottering to her feet in sud
den and awful ghastliness before the final fall.
~.
Speaking of professional beauties. pretty
girl has set up boot-blacking chair in Wall
street. She was an alert creature of sixteen or
so, dressed in jaunty neatness and altogether
an object to make the brokers turn around for
second look But her enterprise failed. No
man had the moral courage to mount that chair
and submit his boots to the brushes Of girl,
and so she got no customers
The great yacht coming OF this season
re a relief to the fashionable young ladies
whose papas have brought them early back to
town. 1t is now just the hour twxt twilight
and morn. twilight meaning the dearth of inter
esting events in city in the summer, and
morning meaning the beginning of 5 ocial activ-
ity for the winter. Those who are in town now,
therefore, find the yacht races an important di-
version. All the many yachts, steam and sail,
that accompany the racers to greater less
extent over the course, have difficulty in get
ting ample consignments OF living freight, neat
~ done up in petticoats and skirts And
even the popular excursion steamers
have their reserved and naughty
quota of girls from the Immediate neghborhood
of Murray Hill. And still more pleasant and
thronged place Of observation is the Neversink
Highlands. a few miles from Sandy Hook.
There, under the shadow of the lighthouse
towers, hundreds of wealthy people go on race
days. driving up in fine style with their iveried
coachmen and coming from towns and villas
miles away. They sit down the grass and
watch the yachts through telescopes and field
glasses until the middle of the day. Then elab-
crate lunches are produced from the carriages,
and the government grounds transformed
into picnic resort The girls very fond of
the sport from distance. They like it better
if the is half mile or away. and not
rolling their responsive craft the waves
with sickening pitches. 1t Is immense fun for
them to sit down on the grass, tuck their skirts
about their toes and lean back against the light
tent, watch the yachts the entire course
without a qualm, and incidentally furnish
tertanment to the other spectators should the
wind die down and the race refuse to proceed.
At least two attempts to race out OF every
three fail in September, account of the
fckleness of the wind. That the when
/ Joined the spectators, the other day, at the
Highlands. The atmosphere delightfully."-
clear. and the expanse of sea view unexcelled in
this part OF the country. But the yachts. lying
notioness five miles out became uDiDteresting
after an hour two and attention had to be
directed elsewhere. All kinds of people, under
the Influence of the open air, incline to get reck-
girl forgot to keep her eye her skirts to see
that vision of a exposed itself beyond
their limits. And that explained, presumably.
why so many young men quietly trained their
glasses on groups of girls, and then laughed, as
il dreadfully tickled Four bad at the top
OF tower amused themselves in this way during
all the afternoon, and none of the girls realized
what was up until late. Then three
girls. who had been romping about
below the lighthouse. climbed the
steep hllock to rejoin their friends.
score of glasses trained upon
them and subdued chorus OF "Ahs" came from
the bad young men whose eyes were glued to
the smaller ends of the telescopes One of the
girls, she dressed in bright red and
jaunty red hat. screamed hasty, stiied scream,
and ran fast she could to the light house
where she stood stock still against the wall.
painting and looking frightened. She could not